leanin' H
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We took a trip hunting turkeys last week and took in the scenery of southeastern Utah. The elevation varied from 5000 tp 9500 feet. We vistited some neat old ranches and all the historic sites. Hope ya like em'.
This is the Dugout ranch ran by Heidi Redd until a few years ago. It's near Canyonlands National Park.
Some old working corrals on the dugout. Bet they have a couple stories to tell!
Lookin' south from the dugout up a valley that they run cattle in. We rode our 4 wheelers up this valley for 28 miles before we followed the road up out of the rim rock. With 1/2 a mile of fence on the north and 1 cattle gaurd on the south you've got a pretty cool pasture.
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My dad enjoying the veiw up by beef basin. My folks and my family all were there and it was priceless.
Cathedral butte at the top of the Dugout valley and the far north end of North Elk Mountain.
Then we traveled further south to Bluff, Utah. This is a mansion built by Al scorup who is in the cowboy hall of fame. He started from Salina, Utah with 300 leased cows 280 miles away and settled on Elk Ridge. He lost all but 31 head the first winter. So he went to Bluff 65 miles away and Hired on finding wild cattle for the Bluff cattle pool. They paid him 10 bucks a head for each cow and told him good luck. Come spring he had better than 4000 head. The next year he bought all of the pool's cattle and range. When the Taylor grazing act came into being he was the single biggest permitee with cattle in 4 states. Quite the cowboy!!!!!
These are wagon track left by the Mormon pioneer that settled Bluff and later started the Bluff cattle pool. They left Escalante, Utah and cut across the desert to get to present day Bluff via a shortcut. The established wagod trail took 3 months. The "shortcut" through the hole-in-the-wall and across the Colorado river took over 6 months. But they made it intact. This grade led them around Comb Ridge and to the San Juan river. Bet they'd love the new paved road showing up in the bottom of the picture!
The Comb Ridge roadblock!
My mom, the kids and I at the top of the grade looking at really old,steep, wagon tracks. Those pioneers were men and women.
The Navajo Twins, a butte right in Bluff, Utah.
This is the Dugout ranch ran by Heidi Redd until a few years ago. It's near Canyonlands National Park.
Some old working corrals on the dugout. Bet they have a couple stories to tell!
Lookin' south from the dugout up a valley that they run cattle in. We rode our 4 wheelers up this valley for 28 miles before we followed the road up out of the rim rock. With 1/2 a mile of fence on the north and 1 cattle gaurd on the south you've got a pretty cool pasture.
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My dad enjoying the veiw up by beef basin. My folks and my family all were there and it was priceless.
Cathedral butte at the top of the Dugout valley and the far north end of North Elk Mountain.
Then we traveled further south to Bluff, Utah. This is a mansion built by Al scorup who is in the cowboy hall of fame. He started from Salina, Utah with 300 leased cows 280 miles away and settled on Elk Ridge. He lost all but 31 head the first winter. So he went to Bluff 65 miles away and Hired on finding wild cattle for the Bluff cattle pool. They paid him 10 bucks a head for each cow and told him good luck. Come spring he had better than 4000 head. The next year he bought all of the pool's cattle and range. When the Taylor grazing act came into being he was the single biggest permitee with cattle in 4 states. Quite the cowboy!!!!!
These are wagon track left by the Mormon pioneer that settled Bluff and later started the Bluff cattle pool. They left Escalante, Utah and cut across the desert to get to present day Bluff via a shortcut. The established wagod trail took 3 months. The "shortcut" through the hole-in-the-wall and across the Colorado river took over 6 months. But they made it intact. This grade led them around Comb Ridge and to the San Juan river. Bet they'd love the new paved road showing up in the bottom of the picture!
The Comb Ridge roadblock!
My mom, the kids and I at the top of the grade looking at really old,steep, wagon tracks. Those pioneers were men and women.
The Navajo Twins, a butte right in Bluff, Utah.
. She must run in some BIG country! Now I see why! Thanks for sharing :!: :!: :!:
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